Ian Lynch: Actor, director and screenwriter in Dublin, Ireland.

Benny Blandino

Hey Ian, my cousin and I are new film makers looking to build our craft and it would be nice to connect and work on some projects together. We are not as advance as some others but for that very reason it would be great to connect with others just starting out and build on our work together. If you are interested please add me and lets discuss!

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LOGLINE: After accidentally killing a beloved vigilante superhero, a smartass slacker takes over as defender of the city to cover his tracks, but soon finds himself being hunted by a psychotic crime lord.
Ross Somerville

Hey, Ian, cheers for connecting!!

Camille Wainer

Hello Ian, Thank you for your Stage32 invitation.

Ian Lynch

Thanks for accepting!

Laura Tabor-Huerta
Text descriptions in scripts- no's and yes's

I have been thinking a lot about how writing groups and articles can say one thing but I often see it done a different way in actual screenplays, even good ones. For example you often see someone telling screenwriter's this for example "You don't tell your audience your story, you SHOW them. You mus...

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Laura Tabor-Huerta

Thanks y'all for your good words.

Padma Narayanaswamy

Laura pl dont things to heart . Seperate the wheat from the husk. Take the good ones and leave the bad ones

Royce Allen Dudley

Description of a character as to mood, style, affect is one thing.. it's a good idea if the details matter ( if they do not, leave them to the casting director and filmmaker ). Description of visuals...

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Eoin O'Sullivan

Hi Ian, caught your post on loglines - the ingredient you are missing is IRONY . . .

Patrick Lavery

Thanks for the connection, Ian.

Ian Lynch
The Fun of Writer's Block...

How do you get past that bump in the road when you're reading a script? When you've written 60-70 pages, and you know your ending, but you're just not quite sure how to fill that last gap? Everyone has their own methods. Do you work on some other script? Do you let your brain relax for a while? Do you stare at the page until something comes to you?

Gregory McGee

There's a great little book that I always recommend to people who think they want to write screenplays. The title sells it: "How To Write A Movie In 21 Days" by Viki King. (C) 1988 , Harper & Row. It...

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Ron Brassfield

Vicki King's book was one of the first three on the craft I ever bought, though I still have not written a feature script in under ten weeks. ( tried my first 1-hr. pilot last fall and was happy with...

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Gregory McGee

I actually got to meet Viki at one of her book signings. She was so awesome, I wanted to marry her. But she was already taken. Her grand little book has helped me to write 4 scripts.

Kate Wrath

Hi Ian! Nice to meet you!

Ian Lynch

You too! Thanks for your advice under my writer's block post! :)

Beth Fox Heisinger

Nice chatting with you today! Thanks for the network request.

Ian Lynch

You too!

Dave McCrea
Only in screenwriting

do people write one script then ask how do i get this sold/made. Guys who play pickup ball in the park for 2 months don't ask "how do I get signed to the Knicks"? Just because you have a clear vision of a movie in your head that excites YOU doesn't mean it's ready to be made into a big budget movie...

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CJ Walley

Lyse makes a good point about the attitude of entitlement demonstrated by some of us. I have to admit that's something that never fails to get my back up. It's like we believe HW is more of a charity than a business sometimes.

Gregory McGee

It doesn't really matter why one writes, or if your work ever sells. If you get into writing only for the money, it's unlikely you'll ever make any. Writing = thinking, which most people are loathe to...

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Beth Fox Heisinger

Alle, while you are more or less correct about scripts based on the writer's personal life experience usually not being marketable to wide audiences, writing from personal experience -- whether for th...

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Ian Lynch

I know it's not cool to like recent movies, but I find the lack of the Social Network disturbing...

Sten Ryason

And the fact that (according to the final credits) Prince plays one of the victims in the overturned car at the beginning of the movie. Check the credits on your DVD...

Derek Ladd

@Beth - I know, that's hilarious. Someone told them, "You can't say it's a true story if it isn't." They looked at him and said, "Sure we can." ;-D

Beth Fox Heisinger

Oh yeah, that's right Sten! I remember that. How funny! Well, Prince is from Minnesota too, don't ya know. I guess, they changed it later when the special edition DVD came out, hinting that the first...

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Ian Lynch
The first step...

I’m out of college a year. I’ve been writing and studying screenwriting for nearly three years now. I’ve nearly finished my fourth feature script. My first three scripts were decent concepts that were horribly executed, as you'd expect with a newbie writer. But with my fourth script, I feel like I’v...

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Danny Manus

Ian, it sounds like you're on the right track. My best advice is - you're young, you're hungry, you presumably are not married or have kids yet - MOVE TO LA! Get a job in the industry, try being an as...

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William Martell

Query managers (most are open to new writers, unlike agents)... and try not to think of the day job as soul crushing. I drove a forklift for 10 years and it was just what had to be done to pay the bil...

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Doug Nelson

Ian – Fortunately, screenwriting is still legal and once smitten, it’s addictive to many. You sound like one of the addicts and you must do whatever it takes to appease that addiction. An’ remember, i...

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Ian Lynch
Putting songs in screenplays

Okay, I've got a question that I need help with. I'm writing a script that has a scene where two characters play a song they've written together. It acts as a bonding moment between the two. How do I write something like that into the script? It's not a musical. It just happens to be two muscians pl...

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Allen Lawrence

I wouldn't put it in at all unless you are a seasoned writer that also writes lyrics. No matter how good you are leave the song out and just describe, they brows into song... They look in each other's eye... Describe the bonding etc.

Michael Lee Burris

It's not that hard here is an example. INT- ANY THEATER- ANY PLACE- ANY TIME Dick and Jane are backstage. Holding hands and smiling they walk upon the big stage waving to the crowd under the bright li...

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Aamir Anjum

watch " khuda ke liye" a Pakistani movie - there is a particular scene when the protagonist moves to USA in search of music and finally ends up composing a song which pictures him and his future half bonding up. " Bandya ho " - Name of the song , available on youtube

Jim Arnold
Log or tag?

Received feedback from a written pitch, which stated I had given a tagline instead of a logline. Can somebody define the difference for me?

Jim Arnold

Thanks Alle. All cleat

Jim Arnold

CLEAR

Lina Jones

Good to know

Ian Lynch

I think there's a market on Irish TV for a clever, strange and original sketch comedy show. A Monty Python for the new age. So much of the stuff on Irish TV is, at best, uninspired, and at worst, unwatchable. What say you, writers, directors and producers of Ireland? Can it be done?

Ian Lynch
A Terrible Intro...

Hi, boys and girls. I'm Ian. I'm a young, stupidly ambitious and stupidly optimistic screenwriter, trapped in the middle of nowhere, in the South East corner of Ireland. I can't wait to chat with all of you, sharing our disappoiments, and secretly mocking the successful of us behind their backs out...

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